Telecoms & Internet Economics

Date & Title	Contents	Content Type
26th July 2007 iPlayer	Pre-launch thoughts on the BBCs service The bandwidth impact on the UK internet
23rd July 2007 Leeds Unbundled ISP IPTV	Part VI of the LUI series with Keith McMahon Our hypothetical approach to IPTV using Joost
19th July 2007 Leeds Unbundled ISP Products	Part IV of the LUI series with Keith McMahon The product strategy of a hypotherical ISP

In March / April 2007, we published a series of articles entitled How to Make Money from Video.

Date & Title	Contents	Content Type
12th April 2007 Slides: How to Make Money from Video	PowerPoint deck summarising the series
3rd April 2007 Part 5: The problem is also how to route the packets	P2P has changed how applications use network Old way of concentrating on building core is inefficient Bandwidth is wasted by tromboning traffic
2nd April 2007 Part 4: Routing the Money	Ways for ISPs to align revenues with costs The missing link between activity and price Eliminating the gigabyte perception problem
26th March 2007 Part 3: Managing Traffic Volumes	The traffic shaping measures commonly used How and why ISPs control costs How this empowers them in the value chain
19th March 2007 Part 2: The cost implications of video	Details behind the £2.10 cost for HDTV over IP Bandwidth costing approaches on shared networks The impact of the busy hour
12th March 2007 Part 1: The Online Video Market	What is online video, VoD, IPTV and where is it going? How social networks are influencing behaviour The long tail of an elephant
5th March 2007 How to Make Money from Video	Introduction to the series

In addition, we have published a number of further articles on the economics of telecoms and the internet.

Date & Title	Contents	Content Type
17th May 2007 £2.5bn or FTTH?	BT pays dividend instead of saving for FTTH Competition are behind and will not fill gap Why invest when risk is high and RoI poor?
3rd May 2007 Beyond the headlines	Detailed examination of the £2.10 number Impact of gigabit networks Impact of scale or lack thereof
26th September 2006 A fragmented market	Hundreds of providers fighting for CPS Future strategy options for carriers in mature market
16th August 2006 The Line Rental Deathmatch	Deregulation of BT has an immediate impact on bundles BT locks customers into near-monopoly product
4th August 2006 BT Dazzles Consumers with Simple Prices	Review of BT's post deregulation price changes Gives away in the headline but takes back in hidden increases
6th July 2006 HD TV over IP: Who pays the Bill?	Original piece. Cost of 2hrs 1080p HDTV = £2.10 Shows the economic imperative of multicast TV model vs Internet model
4th April 2006 TalkTalk's Free Lunch	How TalkTalk make Free Broadband pay Risk of increasing utilisation not covered in model
8th March 2006 Triple Play Market Study	Proof of validity of bundles LLU scale economics BT vs CPS price elasticity

The above articles deal with various financial aspects of telecoms and internet service provision. Related articles may be found in the NGN, IPTV or Digital Divide sections.